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It is most difficult to give correctly the dimensions of any object 
in the water. The head of the creature we set down at about six 
feet in length, and that portion of the neck which we saw at the 
same; the extreme length, as before stated, at between eighty and 
one hundred feet. The neck in thickness equalled the bole of a 
moderate-sized tree. The head and neck of a dark brown or nearly 
black colour, streaked with white in irregular streaks. I do not 
recollect seeing any part of the body.” 
“Such is the rough account of the sea-serpent, and all the party 
who saw it are still in the land of the living, — Lyster in Eng- 
land, Malcolm in New South Wales with his regiment, and the 
remainder still vegetating in Halifax.” 
“W. Suuuivan, Captain, Rifle Brigade, June 21, 1831. 
“A. Mactacuian, Lieutenant, ditto, August 5, 1824. 
“G. P. Matcoim, Ensign, ditto, August 13, 1830. 
“B. O’Nzat Lyster, Lieut. Artillery, June 7, 1816. 
“Henry Ince, Ordnance Storekeeper at Halifax.” 
Mr. Newman, the editor of the Zoologist adds between parentheses : 
“The dates are those on which the gentlemen received their 
respective Commission, I am not aware of their present rank. I 
am indebted to Mr. W. H. Ince for this interesting communication : 
this gentleman received it from his brother, Commander J. M. R. 
Ince, R. N. It is written by their uncle, Mr. Henry Ince, the 
Ordnance store-keeper at Halifax, Nova Scotia.” — 
We observe that the colour of the head and neck is described 
as “streaked with white in irregular streaks”, and that evidently 
the sea-serpent hunted after the grampuses “which appeared in an 
unusual state of excitement’. 
This account translated into German is in Frorigp’s WVotizen , 
Third Series, III, n°. 54, p. 148. 
98 99. — 1833, July. — In Frorter’s Netizen of June 1834 
we read that Prof. Bensamin Srtiiman in a note to Mr. BAKEWELL’s 
Introduction to Geology, stated that 
“since 1820 nearly each year the mass of evidences has increased, 
and that the current year 1833 has been particularly fertile in 
such reports.” 
Dr. Hamiiton in his Amphibious Carnivora, 1839, says: 
“he last notice we have seen of this American animal bears 
